(ThyBlackMan.com) He is an author, speaker, psychologist, educator and promoter of his pan African ideology and school for boys. Dr. Johnson appears to have a total of 6 undergraduate and post graduate degrees. He does talk a good game until you ask him why his Frederick Douglass / Marcus Garvey school is taking so long, where the money he collected is going or why he can’t even seem to get a federal non-profit tax exempt status. He is none other than Dr. Umar Johnson. But is he a pioneer and visionary or a dreamer and scam artist? His approach is certainly an abrasive tone that uses negative reinforcement to challenge African Americans to step up. But when he is held to the same standard, his responses are generally animosity and excuses. That is sad, especially when so much of what he says can be verified to be true. Dr. Johnson and donations:
Recently Rashad Richey, a talk show host on WAOK in Atlanta, did an interview on radio with Dr. Johnson. Richey who promotes himself as “the realist man in talk radio” is more of a “Cointel Pro” opportunist and pseudo-journalist with little real background who 
promotes himself as a self-proclaimed speaker when he really does not have much to say unless he had borrowed, repeated and repackaged it from elsewhere. Thus it is not surprising that Richey would offer up his audience to Umar Johnson. Birds of a feather… And how can Umar Johnson be an example for boys when he sleeps with strippers, discards them and then sets a climate where his followers attack them? Dr. Johnson you were not calling the woman a maggot when you were in bed with her 3 times, were you?
Umar Johnson seems to have a negative and confrontational character which he himself excuses by hiding behind the fact that people question his credentials. He constantly over-talks people and goes on the defensive. He asks us for money but then says “trifling ass black people and I don’t care if you get offended. We can handle that outside”. This is neither the temperament nor professionalism needed to lead young African American boys. If he is a self-proclaimed leader, other than talking online or getting paid to speak, where is he in the field with places like Ferguson and issues like voter fraud or police brutality?
A real leader is present even when there is not a check with his name on it Dr. Johnson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15KzhY-FUro
As an African American author, educator, professional speaker, former detective, senior legal analyst and deprogrammer, I want to believe Umar Johnson is honest, sincere and legitimate. But I do not blindly accept anything, regardless of color or how well the person speaks. And nor should you. I also acknowledge that there are many gifted people who change lives even though they never went to college – and that’s OK. Some of the strongest African American heroes were behind the scenes. And yes I am very familiar with the practice of character assassination. But that is not what this article is about.
Listen for yourself to Dr. Johnson as he tries to escape the fact that the State Board of Psychology where he says he practices has no record of him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSCQLAe4j0w
He becomes defensive and wants the community to ignore his credentials, yet these are the same credentials he uses to promote himself as having a Ph.D. Why become defensive when people are simply trying to understand who you are? Hypocritically Umar Johnson wants to screen everybody else hard but gets defensive when it happens to him.
So here we are years later and several people have donated money to the school Dr. Umar Johnson said he would start. But where is it and what is it doing now? Talk is one thing but when we look at the facts, the numbers and the results, they simply are not there. When confronted a while ago on radio politely by a guest calling about the money he has collected and the issue of accountability, Dr. Johnson became defensive and negative while another talk show host attempted to defame and disconnect the caller from the air. What are you hiding Dr. Johnson?
Umar Johnson has asked our people for millions of dollars. But where is the business plan? Where is the money going that has been collected so far? Dr. Umar Johnson where are your qualified staffing choices since you have not had any noted experience in starting and overseeing such an institution? Why haven’t you gotten your nonprofit status after years of applying? Why haven’t you placed the school under another nonprofit umbrella until you get yours? Something is not right here and fast talking, insults against your people, blaming the white man and excuses are just the tip of the iceberg.
Staff Writer; Trevo Craw